[mysterio]

Aspirin kills 20,000 people each year.

Cervical cancer kills 290,000 each year.

The vaccine gives 1,300 girls some side effect.

If I were a teenage girl, I would get the vaccine. However, I don't think people should be forced to get it.

[a fool in paradise]

How many women who get cervical cancer get it from HPV? That’s the statistic to use.

Guys get throat cancer and testicular cancer from HPV.

[BillM]

3500 deaths per year in the US many avoidable with the same regular tests recommended to those who get the vaccine. Get real!

[BillM]

According to the U.S. Cancer Statistics: 2005 Incidence and Mortality Web site, 11,999 women in the U.S. were told that they had cervical cancer in 2005,* and 3,924 women died from the disease.2 It is estimated that more than $2 billion† is spent on the treatment of cervical cancer per year in the U.S.3

Reference CDC

[metmom]

Cervical cancer kills 290,000 each year.

Where the heck do you get those stats from?

Can you try to be a little honest here and at least state that that is probably worldwide out of over 3 billion women? In the US it's about 4,000 women each year and that's the population size that we are looking at for the side effects from the vaccine.

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/cervical-cancer/DS00167

Thanks largely to Pap test screening, the death rate from cervical cancer has decreased greatly over the last 50 years. Still, every year more than 11,000 women in the United States are diagnosed with invasive cervical cancer, and nearly 4,000 die of cervical cancer, according to the American Cancer Society.

[luckystarmom]

Why would you get it if you are not sexually active?

Some girls actually do wait until they are older than 12 & 13 to have sex.

My girls are 12, and they are waiting for the vaccine.

[WV Mountain Mama]

Quote from CDC. "It is important to get tested for cervical cancer because 6 of 10 cervical cancers occur in women who have never received a Pap test or have not been tested in the past five years."

Keep in mind, many people will have an HPV infection at some time in their lives, but few women will get cervical cancer."

And last year from the CDC's website, the vast majority of women dying from the cancer were sex industry workers. I think I will talk to my daughter about being selective with partners, getting yearly pap smears and not being a hooker.